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Bank Opens Museum in Spanish City of Santander to Display Its 1,000-Strong Art Collection

David Chipperfield has converted Banco Santander’s former headquarters into Faro Santander, a new home for works by artists including Velásquez, Titian, Goya, Picasso and Sorolla

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The Santander Foundation opens its expected art center in the historic Pereda building, which joins the Botín Center to reinforce the cultural offer of the Cantabrian cornice. In its first year it hopes to attract 200,000 visitors Read

·Madrid, Spain
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On the axis of the museums Madrid-Barcelona has come a great competition in the Cantabrian cornice. Everything started back in 1997, with the so-called ' Guggenheim effect' in Bilbao. Attracted by this titanium magnet, would arrive the Museum of the University of Navarra in Pamplona, the Niemeyer Center in Avilés, the MOP Center in La Coruña, the Botín Center in Santander... To all of them, join in this same city the opening of Faro Santander an…

·Madrid, Spain
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The King Felipe VI inaugurates Faro Santander, a new equipment that houses the unknown collection of Banco Santander and has Frida Kahlo and Leonora Carrington as madrinas

·Barcelona, Spain
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From more than an hour before the inauguration, scheduled for 12.00, the citizens already waited for both the Paseo Pereda and the street Ataulfo Argenta, contained by a police device that has cordoned off with fences the main façade of Faro Santander and with troops the rear. In both streets the traffic of vehicles has been maintained at all times.

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King Felipe concluded his first working visit after his vacation on Monday. The Spanish monarch was in Santander to open a new cultural center there, the palace announced. In the new Faro Santander, as the center is called, "art, culture and technology come together in a pub...", according to the court.

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El Diario Montañes broke the news on Sunday, September 6, 2026.
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